US Patent Issued to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, ICHILOV TECH on July 8 for "Automated analysis and selection of human embryos" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,272, issued on July 8, was assigned to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Mass.) and ICHILOV TECH LTD. (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

"Automated analysis and selection of human embryos" was invented by Daniel Needleman (Somerville, Mass.), Hanspeter Pfister (Arlington, Mass.), Yu Yang (Cambridge, Mass.), Won-Dong Jang (Cambridge, Mass.), Brian Leahy (Cambridge, Mass.) and Dalit Ben Yosef (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein use deep learning to automate measurement of key morphokinetic embryo features associated with viability and quality, in particular those relevant for clinical in-vit...